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May 5, 2011
There is an opening for Recording Secretary in our Local Union. Anyone interested, please contact either of the following:
Bobby Reed (Business Manager) 972-965-1382
Monty Makarwich (E-Board Chairman) 817-988-4454
The Executive Board will fill this position at
the next E-Board meeting on June 6. If you have any questions,
please contact the office at
214-821-4700.
April 29, 2011
The company has inadvertently put the wrong hourly pay scale in the system for many FSR’s. After you receive your check today, April 29, 2011, please verify your hourly rate of pay is correct on your check. If it is not correct, you will receive the difference on your paycheck on May 6, 2011.
April 28, 2011
April 15, 2011
March 31, 2011
Brothers and Sisters,
Executive Board
Broadcast - Jack Gwyn
March 21, 2011
View the Officer Runoff Election policy by clicking here.
February 23, 2011
Brothers and Sisters:
The votes have been counted and the contract ratification vote was 67% for and 33% against.
Greg Germany
Business Manager
February 14, 2011
Brothers and Sisters:
For the next two weeks, the Negotiations Committee will be going around the system to ratify the tentative agreement. Please see the attachment for the schedule and dates. If you have anymore questions please contact your Locals' leadership.
Greg Germany
Business Manager
February 10, 2011
Brothers and Sisters:
We have came to a tentative agreement, including a 4.4% over
a 2 year term. The committee will start getting details out soon.
The ratification meetings should start next week. The schedule will be announced as soon as it is completed.
Thanks again for your support and patience I know it has not
been easy on everyone.
See you all next week.
Greg Germany
Business Manager
January 28, 2011
Negotiation Bulletin
IBEW Local 69 and Oncor
Negotiating Committees met on January 26-28th in Arlington, Texas
in an effort to reach settlement on a new labor Agreement.
Unresolved issues include
the length of the contract, the amount of the wage increase in each year,
the FSR wage plan and the treatment of certain work groups in Dallas, Texas.
On Friday afternoon
(1/28/11) the Union submitted an offer to the Company for a 2 year contract
for a 2% wage increase in the first year and a 2.5% wage increase in the
second year (Oct. 2011) with a transition plan to move the FSR’s from a
merit pay plan to a step pay plan.
The parties are scheduled
to get back together on Wednesday, February 2nd in Arlington,
Texas to see if a settlement can be reached.
January 27, 2011
Brothers and Sisters
We are convening negotiations this week and are hoping to come to agreement soon. We appreciate your cooperation and patience. Please check back often for further updates.
January 19, 2011
Brothers and Sisters
Many of us has had numerous issues with payroll checks with Oncor. We are addressing these issues in hopes of resolution but if anyone is seeking to file a wage claim with the Texas Workforce Commission please click on attachment below.
Thanks
January 18, 2011
Brothers and Sisters
Negotiations will be convening the week of January 18,19 and 20 and will include Federal Mediator David Renfro. Please stay tuned for more details. Thanks for your support.
January 13, 2011
Here is an update after the meetings this week. We were able to get close on the remaining grievance issues. In our view these moves are contingent on other economic issues. As for economics we were able to move them off the 1 year offer to make an offer for 3 years at 2% 2010-2.4% 2011-and 2% 2012 with the same group being frozen as their previous offer. They are standing on the 19.42 for FSR's but with no cuts in FSR's over that amount.
I also wanted to let you know that we have Rick Levy intervening in the Oncor rate case. This does not mean we are against the rate case, it just gives us options by openings up discovery questions we could not get answered through negotiations. We will be meeting again next week the 18th, 19th and 20th. We will have mediator Dave Renfro there.
Thanks again for your support.
November 23, 2010
Brothers and Sisters
November has a been busy month, we are in continued negotiations
with Oncor, we held Noel Garcia,s arbitration, also dealt with
no paychecks last week due to a input error from the company
outsourced to take care of payroll at Oncor and Luminant,
approximately 3000 employees were affected. All should have
there money by now, but it made for a wild day. As for
negotiations we are still moving forward, we had the BM from
Local 738 T.J. Burrows and an Fsr from his group Cory Joslyn
come and sit in for an afternoon to describe how their duties
are similar to our FSR,s we believe it helped and thank TJ and
Cory for their time. We will be back meeting the first week in
December and will have Federal mediator Dave Renfro with us for
a day. I would like to pass on a special thanks to Brother
Bobby Reed for his continued work with our broadcast brothers
and sisters. Again we ask for your prayers and patience as we
continue working on getting a new contract with Oncor. I hope
that you all have a great Thanksgiving Holiday.
Business Manager Greg Germany
November 1, 2010
October 22, 2010
Brothers and Sisters,
We just ended our second week of negotiations. We worked out a expedited Grievance Procedure and agreed to a Steward Recognition clause, an accident investigation clause, Resolution action committee, Schedule exchange, 401K issue over Company match withdraw.
We hope to finish soon.
Thanks again for your support and patience.
October 18, 2010
Brothers & Sisters
We started our second week of negotiation today. We spent most of last week working on contract interpretations. We have a tentative agreement on Benefits Task Force memo, New Employee Orientation, and are close on several issues such as a new streamlined Grievance Procedure.
We should get to economics this week. Thank you for your support and patience.
Below is your Local 69 2010 Negotiations Committee.
Top Left to Right:
Shayne Sneed(Journeyman), Randy Neal(Journeyman), Anthony Carinci(Journeyman), Randy McMullen(Appentice 5), Jerry Hicks(FSR)
Bottom Left to Right:
Mark Lane(Sr.Serviceman), Monty Makarwich(Journeyman), Greg Germany(Local 69 Business Mgr.), George Crawford( IBEW 7th Dist. Rep.), Don Gray(FSR)
August 20, 2010
June 10, 2010
IBEW Local Union 69
INFORMATION BULLETIN
·
On June 8th, Union Stewards and FSR Supervisors
attended a joint training program in FTW to become familiar with
each other’s duties and responsibilities in working together to
resolve workplace issues.
·
On June 22nd, Union and Company representatives will
hold the first Wage and Compensation Survey Committee meeting in
Arlington. The
purpose of this
Committee is to survey other Utility Companies to determine what
type of work their FSR’s perform and at what wage structure.
This process will help both Union and Company representatives to
develop an appropriate pay plan for the FSR’s during the
upcoming contract negotiations, in October.
·
The Union has requested the following information from Oncor to
help determine future Job Security issues involving
FSR’s:
2.
A
list of all contractors performing FSR work at Oncor.
Greg Germany, Bus. Manager
IBEW Local Union 69
Office: 214.821.4700 Cell: 903.216.8374
Email:
gmanvz@yahoo.com
Email:
ibewloc69@aol.com
May 26, 2010
Dear Union Member
In addition, the Union and the Company will
be assembling a Joint Compensation Committee in the near future
to begin work on surveying regional electric utility companies
to determine the wage rates and job duties of FSR workers around
the State of
If any of you are interested in becoming a Union Steward for your work location, please contact Greg Germany, Asst. Business Manager, assigned to coordinate the FSR workgroup.
We encourage you to talk to your co-workers
who have not yet joined the Union and encourage them to “Come on
Board” and support our
Johnny L. Flowers, Business Manager Greg Germany, Asst. Business Manager
IBEW Local Union 69
IBEW Local
Office: 214.821.4700 Office: 214.821.4700
Cell: 214.793.0937 Cell: 903.216.8374
Email: ibewloc69@aol.com Email: gmanvs@yahoo.com
March 13, 2010
IBEW Local Union 69
NEGOTIATIONS BULLETIN
Negotiating
Committees for IBEW and Oncor met in
Annual Merit
Pay announcements are being made across the Oncor system to be
implemented with the March 15th pay period.
Federal law requires employers under the “status quo”
provision to continue granting regular scheduled pay increases
while negotiating with a newly certified union representative.
The wage adjustments being made by Oncor range anywhere
between 0% & 3.9%, depending on how your supervisor rated you.
The overall average increase granted was slightly below
2%.
During last
week’s negotiation session Oncor submitted a counter-proposal to
the
Union Proposal
Company Counter-Proposal
FSR 6 -
$24.19
FSR 6 - $19.04
FSR 5 -
$22.23
FSR 5 - $17.55
FSR 4 -
$20.30
FSR 4 - $16.75
FSR 3 -
$18.37
FSR 3 - $16.00
FSR 2 -
$16.44
FSR 2 - $15.23
FSR 1 -
$14.51
FSR 1 -
$14.28
(Employee
shall progress to the next level at six (6)
(Provided an employee progresses satisfactorily
month
intervals providing qualifications for the job
towards his/her qualifications and demonstrates
are being
met.)
satisfactory job performance, the typical
progression interval will be twelve (12) months.)
Thank you
for your continued support.
Regular updates will continue to follow.
February 3, 2010
IBEW Local Union 69
NEGOTIATIONS BULLETIN
****************************************************
Negotiating
Committees for IBEW and Oncor met in
1)
Conversion to a bi-weekly pay plan for FSRs.
2)
Incorporation of the National Labor Relations Board
certification into the labor agreement officially recognizing
the FSRs as part of the contract.
Productive
discussion also took place over other important issues including
wages, hours of work, job security and the impact of PUC
regulations on work assignments.
Negotiations between IBEW
and Oncor will continue in
Two (2)
other developments that relate to contract negotiations are:
1)
The Revenue Security Reps have submit
2)
The FSR SRs
have submit
Thank you
for your continued support.
Regular updates will continue to follow.
IBEW
LU 69 Negotiating Committee
February 1, 2010
January 27,2010
December 2,2009
October 9,2009
Latest news on the FSR's
The IBEW has filed your petition for an election.
This has been a long and tedious campaign; we started this campaign in 2007. There have been many ups and downs along the way but you stuck together and stood strong through it all. Over the last two years many of our supporters left the FSR ranks to take other positions within the company and some left the company entirely for jobs elsewhere. However, most of their replacements recognized the need for representation and stepped forward in supporting our attempt to gain IBEW representation for all the FSRs and FSR SRs.
This is our opportunity to have:
· A work place that promotes fairness and respect for all
· A work place where good work ethics are rewarded and compensated equally
· A work place where grievances are resolved rather than ignored
- A work place where we can feel pride rather than disappointment
- A work place where we have a collective voice in our daily jobs
- A work place where we have advancement opportunities
- A work place where we can feel secure in knowing that our salaries, benefits and working conditions are guaranteed in accordance with our labor agreement
FSRs, by casting a YES vote, you will write a new chapter in the history of Oncor. You have the power to secure better salaries, benefits and working conditions for yourselves and all future FSRs. When you join the Distribution linemen/servicemen in having IBEW representation, you will have a strong collective voice of almost 1,000 IBEW represented Oncor employees.
YOUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR VOTE !
August 26,2009
IBEW LOCAL 69
August 2009
On Saturday, August 22, 2009, IBEW Local 69 Officers and Stewards met with Seventh District Vice President Jonothan Gardner and International Representative George Crawford at the Dallas Local Union Hall. The meeting was scheduled to discuss what our Union is doing correct and what we need to improve on. I would like to thank the following officers, stewards and members for taking their time Saturday to attend the meeting: Russell C. Fontenot, Greg Germany, Keith Hudson, Mark Hudson, Charlie Jackson, Ron Killion, Mark Lane, Marvin Lawry, Manfred McCollum, Randy McMullen, Bobby Reed, Lynn Riggs, Don Smith, Scott Smith and Jody Taylor.
We discussed many different issues related to work and our Union . The membership wants to know what the status of the IBEW Nat’l Healthcare Plan is. I.R. George Crawford reported that the IBEW submitted a proposal to ONCOR & Luminant several weeks ago. Luminant has taken the lead on the healthcare issue and has assured IBEW that the Company’s response to the Union proposal should be delivered to the IBEW within a couple of weeks. The Union leadership will then evaluate the Company’s offer and determine if it is reasonable enough to bring back to the Union membership for review and approval to move forward.
We went on to discuss our grievance procedure. Several of the Stewards were frustrated about how long the grievance procedure takes. I explained that most of the delays begin when the grievances get to Bonner, Carter and Chapman’s level. Scheduling grievance meetings with the Directors has been a challenge.
At the end of the day we came up with a “Union To Do List”.
1. Give more advance notice of Unit Meetings, dates, and locations.
2. Stewards have mini information meetings at each Service Center.
3. Grievance communications between Stewards and Business Manager.
4. Better use of our web-site
5. Cross Region exposure of Union representatives.
6. Schedule future Steward Training at the Dallas Union Hall.
7. Focus on trouble areas.
8. Enforce grievance timelines.
These are some of the things we will be working on in the future.
We sent a letter to Oncor on 8-17-09 with an answer to their proposal on the Aloi arbitration award and expect a reply the week of 8-24-09. It has been almost 60 days since the award and it is time to get it finalized. Our next step would be to go back to the Arbitrator for his interpretation of the award.
For the schedule of the steward /management training go to our web page and check it out.
If there is an interest in forming a RV or Motorcycle club for IBEW Local 69 members please send me an E-Mail. I talk to a lot of members that have a Motorcycle or RV and it would be interesting to meet other members from across Texas who has the same interest.
If you know of something that can improve our Local Union please share that information with us. Call the office at 214-821-4700; e-mail us at ibewloc69@aol.com or call me at 214-793-0937.
Our Union is better when we are together.
June 26,2009
There are still IBEW Local 69 T-shirts and knifes for sale and can obtained them through the Local 69 office or talk to your Steward. You can call the Local 69 office at (214) 821-4700 to check for availability. Below are three of the designs.
June 26,2009
Brothers and Sisters,
KDFW-KDFI has voted on their contract and passed!
May 4,2009
Brothers and Sisters,The IBEW Local 69 FR Committee met with Oncor today (5/4/09) to discuss the changes made to the Safety Handbook regarding the Suitable Clothing rule. The FR sock and the FR face shield was the main topic.
The IBEW Local 69 FR Committee sent a letter of our concerns to the ONCOR Arc Flash Committee on 2-6-09. Our main concerns were on using the FR sock and the FR face shield. We believe that our concerns were considered in making these changes. Please review the attachments and always refer to Safety Rule 107-Suitable Clothing.
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N. Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas 75204
214-821-4700 (office)
214-821-6906 (fax)
214-793-0937 (cell)
May 1,2009
A brief summary of what went down at our meeting with ONCOR (Rob Trimble, Brenda Pulis and Kyle Davis) yesterday:· Meeting format seemed to be better with smaller group and more candor between the parties.· Parties agreed to focus on improving “communications” and in fact decided to put communication as standing agenda item at each quarterly meeting.· Agreed to begin regular meetings between three (3) ONCOR Regional Managers and Local 69 Assistant Business Managers to improve communications and address issues at local regional level.· ; Agreed to schedule follow up meetings with Kyle Davis (ONCOR) and George Crawford (IBEW) addressing supervisors and stewards in the different regions.· Discussed and reviewed the possibility of a settlement of an important pending arbitration case involving “rest time”.· Discussed and reviewed the possibility of using “Grievance Mediation” as an additional step to use between a top level grievance and=2 0arbitration.· Discussed and reviewed union concerns over the erosion of bargaining unit jobs and the lack of growth of bargaining unit jobs vs. non-bargaining unit and management jobs. This issue will also be a standing item on the agenda at the IBEW/ONCOR quarterly meeting.· Agreed to request that the ONCOR Regional Managers work with the Union Assistant Business Managers in their respective regions to complete the updating of the seniority list for bargaining unit employees.· Set the next joint quarterly meeting for August 5, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at the ONCOR office in Grand Prairie, Texas.
April 21,2009
Health Insurance Update
IBEW and Oncor have been in the process of gathering important documents in relation to providing us with a firm bid of IBEW Health care plan. This information has been submitted to the IBEW in Washington and there will be processed and hopefully a bid will be presented here within the next month or so. Local 69 has pressed very hard on getting this very important issue completed. Thank you for everyone's patients.
April 6,2009
There is an opening slot for a member on E-board that will represent the Western Region. If theres anyone in the Western Region that is interested in this position please contact the local via email or phone. For more information on this position, please contact the business Mgr.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N.Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas
214-821-4700 (office)
214-793-0937 (cell)
April 3, 2009
Brothers,
We have met with the company on the changing of the way we do
our on call. We met on 3-30-09 and 4-03-09 and voiced our
concerns on why the Company does not have the right to implement
this change. We did not come to a conclusion and the Company
said that they were going forward with the change. At this
meeting we also discussed the grievance procedure and we will be
filing a grievance at each service that is affected. This will
allow us to see how many service centers are affected and then
we will combine them into one grievance. This will be filed
under, for the good of the Union.
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
1408 N.Washington
Ste.210
Dallas Texas
214-821-4700 (office)
214-793-0937 (cell)
February 25,2009
Latest news of the IBEW health insurance!
We are set to have a meeting March 13,2009 for an IBEW representative to make a presentation regarding a cost proposal, etc for the IBEW Healthcare Plan for workers at ONCOR and Luminant. There will be a update to the out come of the meeting.
February 16,2009
IBEW Healthcare update.IBEW is in the process of getting three bids together to present to EFH.The first bid will be for ONCOR Only. The second bid will be for Luminant Only. The third bid will be for ONCOR and Luminant together.As I understand this you will need to be a bargaining unit employee to participate.We should know something by the end of this quarter about the bids.
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
IBEW Local 69
214-821-4700 (Office)
214-793-0937 (Cell)
December 29,2008
With the combined effort of both Oncor and Local 69, a revised service center preference list is now available. The preference list will be in the Steward info folder and in a attached link below for a short while. Once you have completed the list and turned in to get it signed, it is recommended that you make a copy of the signed list for own documentation. If you have any questions pertaining to the list please direct them to your Steward or Business Mgr.
Service Center_preference_list
December 15,2008
Dear Brother’s & Sister’s:
On December 10th we held our quarterly Labor/Management Meeting in Arlington, Texas. This included the Staffing, Safety & Health Care.
The Staffing Committee discussed the job positing that are being put on Oncor’s job posting site. Oncor plans are to hire 57 new employees and replace 37 employees that have either retired, been promoted or left the bargaining unit for any reason. This includes an additional storeroom employee in Temple, and two Troublemen – one for each Doc’s.
On the Safety Committee we discussed the new F.R. clothing that everyone has been fitted for. Mr. Tidwell did say that instead of the face shield you could wear the head sock and safety glass’s (clear) at night. You can wear the sock to replace the shield anytime. Mr. Tidwell also said that 97% of the time the long sleeve Henley will be the only shirt required. After you receive your new F.R. clothing in January you will no longer be able to wear your current F.R. clothing to work in. All of these changes have been brought about by the N.E.S.C. - National Electric Safety Code. There are not any changes to OSHA rules.
On the healthcare issue there has not been any progress. The IBEW and Oncor representatives are still getting all data together. We should know in the first quarter of 2009 if we have a deal or not.
We will be filling vacancies on the E-Board in January. Anyone that is interested should contact our office by e-mail (ibewloc69@aol.com) or phone (214-821-4700). These vacancies will be filled on January 22, 2009 at the Dallas meeting. All E-Board meetings will be held on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 4:00 p.m. All E-Board members will need to be available by phone at this time. We will be handling the E-Board business by conference call. Conference calls will allow everyone an opportunity to serve where they are located at.
If you have an e-mail address and would like to be added to our list send us your information. Also if you have a new address, phone or job, please contact the office so we can update your records. Again, you can contact us by e-mail or phone.
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Remember all of our troops that have served and are currently serving. Because of their sacrifices we are free today.
Just a reminder – Per Capita Dues will increase $1 (one dollar) on January 1, 2009.
God Bless,
Johnny L. Flowers
Business Manager/
Financial Secretary
July 9,2008
To help both the Local 69 and Oncor in gathering a complete seniority list, a form has been created for each and everyone of us to fill out and give to our Supervisor. The Supervisor's are aware of this form and have been instructed to work with us in this process.
With the cooperation in both the Union and Management, we can complete this task in a timely manor.
If you have any questions pertaining to this procedure, feel free to contact your steward and or business Mgr.
I have attached the form under the Steward info tab.
May 7,2008
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May 2, 2008
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Executive Level Labor/Management Team Meeting Held – 02/25/08 ****************************************************** The first quarterly Executive Level Labor/Management Team meeting was held in Dallas, Texas on Monday, February 25, 2008. Attending were: LABOR MANAGEMENT George Crawford Rob Trimble Bobby Reed Brenda Pulis Scott Smith Debbie Elmer Johnny Flowers Kyle Davis Greg Germany Ashleigh Trimble Monty Makarwich ONCOR’s CEO, Bob Shapard, was scheduled to attend, however, he was called away to an out-of-state meeting. The team reviewed and discussed the following topics: · Update on ONCOR’s first Board of Directors meeting held last week in Dallas. · Update on commitments made at November, 2007 meeting between IBEW, ONCOR and the new owners – Energy Future Holdings: o Completed negotiations on a new labor agreement in January, 2008. o Establishment of three (3) labor/management teams (General, Safety & Benefits) within the provisions of the new labor agreement to provide more cooperation and collaboration between the Union and the Company on important workplace issues. o Agreed to schedule a series of joint union steward/foreman-supervisor meetings to discuss and review key labor/management duties and responsibilities. These meetings will be led by George Crawford, IBEW and Kyle Davis, ONCOR. o Agreed to establish a set of Labor/Management Principles to help guide the Union and Company representatives in developing mutual cooperation and trust. o Agreed to schedule a meeting between the Union and the Company to review the “contracting of work” plans and procedures. The team also discussed some high level topics that will be addressed at future quarterly meetings. The topics include: · ONCOR’s rate case to be filed this year with the Texas Public Utility Commission. · IBEW’s National Health Care Plan · The 2009 Texas Legislative Session in Austin, Texas. · IBEW’s new Code of Excellence program for Utilities. · Skilled Linemen shortages and the aging workforce issue. The Union and Company representatives are committed to developing a better working relationship and intend for this renewed focus to be communicated and applied in all local workplaces.
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